Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Miranda

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of the Miranda warning?

• A) It is a protection offered to the U.S. citizens under the Eighth Amendment.
• B) It gives defendants the right to a speedy, public trial by a jury of their peers.
• C) It allows persons accused of crimes the right to confront and cross-examine their accusers.
• D) It gives people charged with a criminal offence the right to be represented by effective counsels.

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Definitions:

Reaction Formation

Psychological defense mechanism in which a person forms an opposite emotional or behavioral reaction to the way he or she really feels to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

External Locus of Control

A belief that one's successes or failures result from external factors beyond one's control.

Rotter

Julian B. Rotter, a psychologist known for his work on locus of control, a theory about how people perceive the source of life events and outcomes as either within themselves or externally.